The Tell Tale Heart By: Edgar Allen Poe

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The story starts out with an unnamed narrator who claims he is not insane but ... As the clock struck four, he took the body of the old man, and tore and cut it apart. ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

The story starts out with an unnamed narrator who claims he is not insane but that he is a nervous wreck.

For the past 7 days, the narrator has gone into an old mans room and has watched the man sleep. The narrator does so because he fears the pale blue eye of the old man.

On the eighth night of the narrator spying on the old man, the old man wakes up and screams. The narrator continues to keep still as he watches the old man sitting up in bed, terrified.

After a while of watching the old man, who was still sitting up in bed, the narrator begins to hear a faint thumping noise. The noise of the old mans heartbeat. The narrator goes insane, as the heartbeat gets louder and louder.

Worried that the neighbors may hear the loud thumping of the heartbeat, the narrator kills the man by throwing the bed on top of the man, and killing him.

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As the clock struck four, he took the body of the old man, and tore and cut it apart. He then took those body parts and stuck them beneath the floor boards of the mans room.

The neighbors had heard a faint scream come from the house and called the police. The narrator willingly lets the police search the house. The narrator tries to keep his composure until all of the sudden he begins to hear the heartbeat again. He goes insane, believing that the police can hear it as well.

He admits that he has killed the man, and tell the police to look under the floorboards.

5Characters

Unknown narrator The narrator of the story who is the murder of the old man. The only motive he has to kill the old man is because of his pale blue eyes. He tries to deny how insane he is, but we soon find out that there is no other word to describe him.

The old man The narrators murder victim. He is a harmless man who has done nothing wrong. He has one blue eye the narrator calls his evil eye

6Setting

Setting

The story opens in an unknown place where the narrator tells readers that he is not mad.

The story is set in a house occupied by the narrator and an old man.

The story takes place over eight days.

7Plot

A man claims he is not insane

He stalks the old man with the blue eye

He kills the man believing that the neighbors can hear his terrified heartbeat after discovering the narrator was watching him sleep

The police arrive and the man tries to act as if nothing is wrong

He believes that he hears a heartbeat and panics

He then confesses to murdering the man

8Themes and Symbols

Themes

Sanity and Insanity

The narrator claims his sanity when in the end he is clearly the opposite

Fear of discovery can bring about discovery (guilt and innocence)

At the end of the story, the narrator begins to crack under the pressure of a police investigation, hearing the sound of the murdered man's beating heart, and tells the police where he hid the body.

The evil within is worse than the evil outside a person

The old man has a hideous eye so outwardly he is ugly but he is otherwise a harmless person.

The narrator is inwardly ugly and crazy, he executes murdering the old man, outwardly he tries to appear normal

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Symbols

Old mans blue eyes- The narrator feels that the man is always looking at him with his evil eye and goes to the harsh extent of killing the man because of it.

The heartbeat- the sound of his pounding heart drives the narrator mad and causes him to confess thinking he heard the old mans heart

His claim to sanity- ironically he claims he is sane when he is in fact insane because he says he is sane

10Climax and Resolution

Climax- When the narrator kills the old man

Resolution- he goes insane from the beat of his own heart and confesses to the murder

11Questions

Why does the narrator say he isnt crazy?

True! nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will you say that I am mad?

Did he stalk the man because he originally planned to kill him, or was it unplanned?

Why does the subtle sound of a heartbeat grab his attention rather than the old mans screams?

Why did he feel the need to cut him up?

Does this mirror Poes life in anyway?

12The End!

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